Hofesh Shechter Company

Founded in 2008, its mission is to create work that feels less like dance and more like life, to share experiences that awaken people in their gut, and matter to their spirit, to inspire and nurture the next generation of dancers and to excite a new generation of audiences from across the world.

The company’s stage repertoire includes Uprising (2006), In your rooms (2007), The Art of Not Looking Back (2009), Political Mother (2010), Sun (2013), barbarians (2015), Grand Finale (2017), Double Murder (2021), SHOW (2018), and Contemporary Dance 2.0 (2022) performed by Shechter II, the company’s apprentice programme. Hofesh Shechter Company has played in cities around the world including Paris, New York, Melbourne, Tokyo, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Rome, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro and many more.

The company has collaborated on exceptional, world-leading, large-scale stage and film projects including a revival of Shechter’s production of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at La Scala, Milan (2018), co-directed with John Fulljames, East Wall (2018) at the Tower of London, in partnership with East London Dance, Historic Royal Palaces and LIFT, as well as the short film adaptation of POLITICAL MOTHER: The Final Cut (2021), and the feature length dance films En corps (2022) and LIGHT: Bach Dances (2021) which was produced in collaboration with Royal Danish Opera and won the Fedora – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020.